by Matthew Friedman | Mar 17, 2020 | Commentary
“Just purchased 4 rolls of toilet paper, kinda feel like Indiana Jones.” My friend had just returned from shopping the bare shelves of a suburban Chicago supermarket like an action hero for the essentials to survive a plague. “It’s eerie and quiet out there,” joked...
by Matthew Friedman | Mar 8, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
Elizabeth Warren has faced entrenched sexism at every turn in her personal, professional, and political life. It is what turned her once-promising presidential campaign into an uphill slog against the misogyny deeply rooted in the soil of American culture. It is the...
by Matthew Friedman | Mar 1, 2020 | Essays, History
The opening scene of Hunters, the new series from Amazon Prime starring Al Pacino and Logan Lerman as members of an intrepid band of American Nazi hunters, tells you everything that you need to know about the show: The American Undersecretary of State Biff Simpson...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 18, 2020 | Essays
If the war between the supporters of Democratic Party candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders this week demonstrated anything, it is that politics is not rational. However, the fatal weakness of the American left is that we believe otherwise. Our tragic...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 1, 2020 | Commentary
Do you remember when 2016 was “the worst year ever,” and we looked forward to the possibilities offered by 2017? Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, and Carrie Fisher all died in 2016, in what seemed like quick succession. It was an incalculable loss...
